Fuad Masum

Fuad Masum (born 1938) was the President of Iraq from 2014, succeeding Jalal Talabani.

Biography
Masum was born in Koya, Iraq in 1938 and studied in Al-Azhar University. In 1962 he became a member of the Iraqi Communist Party but in 1964 he changed his party to join the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP). A centrist, he became the President of Iraq in 2014.